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ressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper. It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth. Sir T. Elyot.

nd of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster.

Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.

Robbed; borrowed. Temple rubato. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

Rubbish. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically:

To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.

Rubbish. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

a. & n. from Rub, v.

ash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

e masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

See Rubble, 1 and 2.

Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

Relating to, or containing, rubble.

Reddish. [R.] M. Stuart.

Making red. -- n. (Med.)

The act or process of making red.

A little ruby. Herrick.

A red color used in enameling. Weale.

An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.